February 2012
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video: St. Vincent - Cheerleader
No actual cheerleading in the video for St. Vincent’s Cheerleader, but Annie Clark being exposed as a piece in a gallery. Directed by Hiro Murai, inspired by Ron Mueck. (via)
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video: Niki & the Dove - The Fox
WINTR made a fancy-looking animated video for Niki & the Dove’s The Fox, taken from the duo’s The Fox EP that was released on Sub Pop last year.
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stream: Phèdre - Phèdre
Phèdre release their self-titled debut next week via DAPS, but you can already stream it in its entirety below. Sleazy synthpop with a dirty touch, brought to you by the three lovers from Monaco, raised in a cave of gold. (via)
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video: Granit - Marea Viva
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video: Neon Indian - Fallout
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video: Madonna - Give Me All Your Luvin' (feat....
More bad girls, as M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj star on Madonna’s comeback-single Give Me All Your Luvin’. First single from Madonna’s upcoming MDNA, catchy as hell.
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video: M.I.A. - Bad Girls
M.I.A. shows the world once more why she is Queen of Bad Girls. The video for Bad Girls was directed by Romain Gavras, shot in Morocco, features tons of car tricks, explosions and other bad things you expect to happen in a M.I.A. video. Bad girls do it well!
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video: Miike Snow - Paddling Out
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video: Nicolas Jaar - Materials
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video: Zambri - ICBYS
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CFCF announces new release 'Exercises'
I’ve drooled over CFCF plenty of times already - and here I am doing that same thing once more. The Montreal-based producer is set to release an 8-track piece titled Exercises on April 24 via Paper Bag. “Exercises is all snowy walkways and long corridors, endless escalators ascending to desolate concrete plateaus. Each track feels like an exploration of lost memories, studies in...
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mp3: oOoOO - NoWayBack (ft. Butterclock)
oOoOO (still pronounced as “oh”) has been “away” (read as: touring, recording, living his life) ever since he released his self-titled debut EP on Tri Angle in late 2010, but he’s releasing a new 5-track EP on April 10 titled Our Love Is Hurting Us. Butterclock prvides vocals on two tracks, of which you can grab the latter below - NoWayBack sounds a lot like...
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mixtape: Evian Christ - Kings and Them
Mysterious Youtube-based producer Evian Christ signed to Tri Angle Records and released a mixtape Kings and Them in celebration, which you can grab and/or stream below. It compiles mastered versions all of the tracks he’s put out so far (read as: mp3’s you’ve been searching for over a month).
zip Evian Christ - Kings and Them
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stream: Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Lana Del Rey released her Born To Die upon the world, a beast that conquered the #1 spot on sales in eleven countries in just several hours. Her heartbreaking breakthrough single Video Games has its part in that, although the importance of her image and appearances on plenty of TV shows shouldn’t be underestimated as well. Some call Born To Die “a faked orgasm” or “a...
January 2012
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Have been enjoying First Aid Kit’s new full-length The Lion’s Roar the last couple of days. It’s an absolutely gorgeous record, folky indie pop at its finest. First Aid Kit are sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, based in Stockholm (not that surprising) - The Lion’s Roar is not the first full-length they release, back in 2010 the duo put out The Big Black and the Blue....
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mp3: Fanfarlo - Shiny Things (Yeasayer Remix)
Yeasayer infect their weird psy-pop magic in Fanfarlo’s Shiny Things and turn the indie pop gem into a psychedelic Middle Eastern hymn. Grab the mp3 below, plus watch the band play the song live for their ongoing live sessions. Hope you already watched Tim Nackishi’s video for Shiny Things. Rooms Filled With Lights is out on February 28. (via)
mp3 Fanfarlo - Shiny Things (Yeasayer...
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video premiere: The Weeknd - Montreal
High5Collective’s first video ever was that one for The Weeknd’s The Morning with those four babes running around in the desert - remember it? Today, eight months later, they bring us another video for one of The Weeknd’s tunes. It’s about a young girl being abused by her father, set to Montreal off Echoes of Silence - the theme of the video probably refers to the...
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Keep Shelly in Athens cover The Jesus and Mary...
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White Hinterland have successfully covered popular...
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video: Feist - The Bad In Each Other
“This video captures glimpses of something human, we get a peek inside something real between people - could be loss, longing and love. A lot of things which is about being a human being.. It is told in a way where it opens up more aspects than it concludes. Maybe something we can’t grasp, but it points at it or touches it and leaves us with different kinds of emotions. You could...
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Jamie N Commons are set to release a new single...
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video premiere: D E N A - Games
Berlin’s best kept secret D E N A returns with another in-your-face pop-anthem that will get your ass on the dancefloor within just seconds: the groovy and s e x y Games. Out on a 7” soon, via Aerobic International, backed by Boyfriend, that other sexy jam of hers.
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stream: JMSN - †Priscilla†
JSMN an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, mixer, videographer and designer - that’s a lot of stuff, but it all comes down to the fact he does everything about his music himself, from writing it to producing it, plus directing his own videos.
He self-released his debut album †Priscilla† (don’t let those crosses trick you, this is far from witch...
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video: ScHoolboy Q - Nightmare On Figg St.
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mp3: Memoryhouse - Walk With Me
Walk With Me, another outtake off Memoryhouse’s forthcoming The Slideshow Effect, is a lot more “classic Memoryhouse” than their previously released The Kids Were Wrong was. Although the middle bit has drums as well, overall it feels “proper” dreamy again - don’t get me wrong though, I did like The Kids Were Wrong, but this dreamy sound of theirs is the thing...
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video: Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From Your...
Porcelain Raft suits up and hires two copycats to star in the video for Unless You Speak From Your Heart, taken from his wistful, soothing debut full-length Strange Weekend.
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video: Phèdre - In Decay
Grimes recommended this (OMFG) on Twitter yesterday - it’s the video for Phèdre’s In Decay, which is NSFW but not in way you expect it to be. Phèdre are “three lovers from Monaco, raised in a cave of gold” and release their debut LP digitally on February 14. (via)
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video: Desire - Don't Call
Italians Do It Better team up with director Alberto Rossini once more for the video for Desire’s Don’t Call, which was shot in Miami during a hurricane.
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video: Kate Bush - Lake Tahoe
Kate Bush directed the video for her Lake Tahoe, taken from her latest offering 50 Words For Snow, which tells a tale of an old dog dreaming of his owner. The piece is called Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe. “It has all been created in camera with shadow puppets, one of my favourite art forms because of its simplicity. It is something that I’ve wanted to do for years and it was great...
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Miike Snow recruited one of my favorite Swedish...
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video: Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid
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Pearl Fiction (Per Störby from Zeigeist) releases...
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video: We Have Band - Where Are Your People?
Alex Turvey directed a very artistic, somewhat frightening but beautiful video for We Have Band’s Where Are Your People?, taken from their new album Ternion. The video was inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain. In case you can’t wait to hear Ternion in full (out on January 29), you can stream it in its entirety below.
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video: A$AP Rocky - Wassup
The video for the Clams Casino-produced Wassup, taken from A$AP Rocky’s LiveLoveA$AP, was inspired by Scarface, Belly, Enter The Dragon, The Warriors and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. “The result is a video that follows A$AP Rocky through a dreamy fantasy world filled with 40s, Ferrari’s, homies and hoards of cash”, although about 99% percent of the videos for...
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Tourist is the reincarnation of the Brighton-based...
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video: Me And My Drummer - You're A Runner
Me And My Drummer are a boy/girl duo from Germany: Charlotte Brandi on vocals and behind the keyboard, Matze Pröllochs on drums. Their debut single You’re A Runner is a strong piece of drum-driven pop à la Niki & the Dove. “This voice forms a tender, intimate, immediate alliance with a set of instruments reduced to its core. Almost brutally close, they create an intoxicating...
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video: ScHoolboy Q - Hands On The Wheel (feat....
Hands On The Weel is taken from ScHoolboy Q’s Habits & Contradictions (which has plenty of other jams, out now on iTunes) and features A$AP Rocky. In case you were wondering, it samples Lissie’s cover of Kid Cudi’s Pursuit Of Happiness. Directed by JeromeD.com.
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video: Lianne La Havas - Forget
Lianne La Havas has got it all. The voice, the looks, the hair, the smile, the clothes, and the songs, of course. Sweet guitar-pop, fronted by a romantic soul voice. I haven’t really blogged about her yet, but this new video for Forget has got to be the perfect introduction. Directed by Danny Sangra.
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video: Active Child - Hanging On
Even though I’ve heard it countless times already, Active Child’s Hanging On still puts me on the top of my seat every single spin. Directed by Pier Pictures.
I just can’t keep hanging on To you and me I just don’t know what is wrong With you and me Touch me and then turn away Put your hands into the flame Tell me if you feel this pain ‘Cause I don’t...
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video: Class Actress - Bienvenue
The video for Class Actress’ Bienvenue (taken from her debut Rapprocher) features Elizabeth Harper (that’s Class Actress), a glam, designer-clad actress who falls for foxy model Sina Araghi in Paris. Directed by Clement Gino and Gregory Faure.
“As a girl, I fell in love with Montmarte—it’s the classic romantic artist haven. So far, most of my videos have been shot in...
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Azealia Banks soundtracked the Mugler fashion show...
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video: Alex Winston - Choice Notes
Originally released on a 7” back in 2010, Choice Notes is one of Alex Winston’s first singles and can also be found on the tracklist off her debut album King Con, which is set for a March 6 release. The song has been featured in a commercial already, but Austin Peters directed a proper video for the sweet pop jam in Detroit earlier this month.
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short film: Rosemary - A Persian Tale
Danish/Iranian nu-disco duo Rosemary made a short film, soundtracked by excerpts of their free debut EP A Persian Tale. Directed by Lasse Martinussen.
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video: Santigold - Big Mouth
The second Cody Critcheloe (SSION)-directed video of the day is the colourful/playful video for Big Mouth, the new Santigold single. It’s the second outtake from her forthcoming new album Master of My Make-Believe, which is set for a release this Spring. Sounds/looks a lot like M.I.A.
mp3 Santigold - Big Mouth
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video: Perfume Genius - Hood
Gay porn star/NY-based escort Arpad Miklos stars along Perfume Genius in the video for Hood, directed by Winston H. Case. Hood is taken from Perfume Genius’ (absolutely gorgeous, believe me) sophomore effort Put Your Back N 2 It, out on February 21 via Matador/Turnstile. “The song’s about how if someone knew you 100%, they would go away” - read more about the idea behind...
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video: MNDR - #1 In Heaven
MNDR’s new single #1 In Heaven (the first to be taken off her forthcoming debut) is a song about Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper legend/millionaire William Randolph Hearst, arrested for robbing and murdering a person but eventually excused for the crime. The lyrics are her exact words after getting arrested: “Tell them I am smiling and send my greetings.” The video was...
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video: Light Asylum - Skull Fuct
Light Asylum are currently tucked away in the studio recording their debut album which is set for a release in May on Mexican Summer. To soften the wait, the duo had a video made for Skull Fuct (taken from their In Tension EP), which was shot and directed by Emilxa Xuryłowicz and Cezary Zacharewicz.